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A Clinton campaign email
released as part of the Wikileaks data dump earlier today talks about
the need to maintain political power by producing “an unaware and
compliant citizenry”.

The email
was sent to Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta by former
Clinton administration official Bill Ivey on March 13, 2016.

Ivey was appointed Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts during Bill Clinton’s second term. According to his bio,
Ivey “is a trustee of the Center for American Progress (a Clinton
campaign front), and was a Team Leader in the Barack Obama presidential
transition.”

In the email, Ivey
outlines the panic amongst some Democrats that Donald Trump’s “celebrity
politics” persona cannot be matched by Hillary, who is “not an
entertainer, and not a celebrity in the Trump, Kardashian mold.”

“Money
isn’t all that important if you can conflate entertainment with the
electoral process. Trump masters TV, TV so-called news picks up and
repeats and repeats to death this opinionated blowhard and his
hairbrained ideas, free-floating discontent attaches to a seeming
strongman and we’re off and running,” complains Ivey.

Ivey wonders how Clinton can combat Trump’s larger than life appeal, worrying that simply ‘defaulting to policy’ won’t work.

“And
as I’ve mentioned, we’ve all been quite content to demean government,
drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant
citizenry,” he writes.

To
emphasize, Ivey admits that the left has ‘conspired’ to “produce an
unaware and compliant citizenry” but that they’re not as easy to
manipulate anymore and that this is a problem. He characterizes
“unawareness” amongst the public as a positive thing for the Clinton
campaign.

Ivey ends the email by
saying he will attend a Clinton fundraiser and that he fears, “we are
all now trying to navigate a set of forces that cannot be simply
explained or fully understood.”

The
email is a shocking insight into the elitist and arrogant mindset that
pervades the Clinton campaign, with Americans viewed as dumb sheep who
need to be herded in the right direction.